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The Discovery of Longitude at Sea, etc. Act 1818, which completely revised the composition and remit of the Board of Longitude, again changed the rewards, by now offered for improvements to navigation in general rather than simply for finding longitude.
- Discovery of North-West Passage Act 1744
The Act was repealed by section 9 of the Discovery of...
- Discovery of North-West Passage Act 1744
1 June 1818. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of His present Majesty for granting Duties of Excise in Ireland upon certain Licences, and for securing the Payment of such Duties and the regulating the issuing of such Licences. Militia Pay (Great Britain) Act 1818. 58 Geo. 3.
An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea (dt. Ein Gesetz zur Bereitstellung einer öffentlichen Belohnung für eine oder mehrere Personen, die den Längengrad auf See entdecken)
An act for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, and encouraging Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole.
The history of longitude describes the centuries-long effort by astronomers, cartographers and navigators to discover a means of determining the longitude of any given place on Earth. The measurement of longitude is important to both cartography and navigation.
Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1713. The Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more popularly Board of Longitude, was a British government body formed in 1714 to administer a scheme of prizes intended to encourage innovators to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
